There was no immediate retaliation visited upon Carlos Quentin after he charged the mound and broke Zack Geinke’s collarbone. But Jeff Passan notes that, at the time, the Dodgers were saying that his time was going to come, with one unnamed Dodger telling Passan:

“We will get him,” he said. “It may not be next time we see him. It may not be the time after that. It may not be two times after that. But we will get him. I promise.”

The Dodgers meet the Padres tonight, kicking off a three-game set. Greinke won’t be going in the series so there won’t be a chance of direct retribution, but it wouldn’t be shocking if someone threw a ball at Quentin.

It’ll be awesome when it happens and the Dodgers pitcher says it just slipped out of his hand or Don Mattingly talks about how “you never want to hit a guy in that situation.”

Quentin crowds the plate so much, you’d think it would be easy, but it’s not. I expect the Commissioner’s office to monitor Padres/Dodgers games all season, and be ready to pounce unless the Dodgers pitcher du jour emphatically makes it look like an accident, by falling off the mound or something. In this series, Dodgers pitchers may go out of their way NOT to hit him, and end up walking him.